TODAY: In 1824, English novelist and playwright Wilkie Collins is born.
- Your reading list for a dry January (should you choose to accept it). | Lit Hub
- Motherhood is Antarctica: On the underexplored landscape of postpartum loneliness. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Beyond resolutions: A closer look at “The New Year Poem” as an act of resistance. | Lit Hub
- On the power of titles, decolonization, and translating poems in iterations: A conversation between Wendy Call and Shook. | Lit Hub
- “Once upon a time, M’sauga Island was the place where desperate mothers abandoned baby girls…” Read an excerpt from Bonnie Jo Campbell’s The Waters. | Lit Hub
- “All these artists who have been killed … what’s happened to their art? We talk about numbers of people dead, and we can’t even begin to comprehend this other loss.” An interview with Palestinian poet Najwan Darwish. | The Guardian
- How do your 2023 reading numbers stack up? | The Washington Post
- Emma Green talks to political science professor D. Stephen Voss about being an unwilling supporting character in the controversy about Claudine Gay’s alleged plagiarism. | The New Yorker
- “I still envy the author’s gift for devising titles for the Busytown series that speak directly to their audience.” Peter Behrens on Richard Scarry’s Cars and Trucks and Things That Go at 50. | The New York Times
